Comments on: Bad Digital Photo Frames Lurk

By: QB

QB — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:22:44 +0000

#10 GregA

I’ve been reading conflicting info. I’ll assume you’re right and they’re not that smart. Thanks.

By: Uncle Patso

Uncle Patso — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:37:46 +0000

Seems to me the digital photo frames with trojans, worms & other malware first hit the papers months ago — dslreports.com has a story dated February; Engadget has one from January. Heck, it even made our local paper. If you get one of these, the _first_ thing you do is scan it with your anti-virus and all your anti spyware programs, preferably on a computer that’s not on the net. I believe the Insignia brand were the first identified with the problem.

By: ubiquitous talking head

ubiquitous talking head — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:54:40 +0000

If you have an alternative to PayPal then I would be more than happy to send a donation your way.

Add me to this camp.

I don’t have an extra $100 to be your friend, but I’d give you $20 to be listed as a “casual aquaintance”.

By: QB

QB — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:30:08 +0000

Sorry, better url for article.

By: QB

QB — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:29:09 +0000

Anyone read Wired’s article about Kaminsky’s DNS hack? Was it just me, or was that the most overblown article I’ve ever read from Wired?

http://wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-12/ff_kaminsky

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:23:02 +0000

This MS’ “Pay as you Go” crapola is another one of their steps towards “Cloud” computing. It is beased on their knowledge that there are plenty of suckers out there (and new ones everyday…by the truckload) that will get into this becuase is either “kewl” (even though is not mac) or “it’s the future”

Welcome to the past.

#7 Weird. Most NAS’s have linux as their OS.

#10 Amen on that second class citizenship.

#11 Keep the faith.

By: B. Dog

B. Dog — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:08:23 +0000

I don’t believe the PS3 is dying — on the contrary the dismal relative PS3 sales figures for November mean the Xbox 360 and Wii sales just peaked. You’ll see. Parents just cheaped out for this Christmas.

By: GregA

GregA — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:42:10 +0000

#6,

Looking at the forums, nope. This is still just a samba server as far as OS X is concerned. You will be doing actual backups, and won’t get time machine shenanagans(weak simulation of windows superior shadow copy).

Also, this is not for enterprise space, this is as a “Home Server” whatever that is(I think it is ePenis enhancement woo woo I have a server! That makes me ePenis at least an inch longer!). Macs will still be second class citizens on your workplace windows domain.

By: GregA

GregA — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:30:08 +0000

#8,

This doesn’t work like that. This is more like a repo plan for windows. The Microsoft system will enable computer sellers (this is for emerging markets) to give computers to people, and allows the seller to shut the computer off if the person doesn’t pay their bill. After a set number of hours are purchased on the computer, it becomes fully functional and the pay as you go stuff goes away.

Think pre-paid phone service…

By: Ron Larson

Ron Larson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:52:04 +0000

Gee… #2 is right. I remember pay as you go. It was called Time Sharing. It was very common in the 1970′s. There were extensive accounting software that would track every CPU cycle in or out, storage, etc. and bill it to clients.

By: muddauber

muddauber — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:48:26 +0000

HP gets PC and MAC server. So? Yeah, So!
Half the products I’ve used hang up when I try to
access them with a Mac. I returned the Maxtor
Central Axis ( Sounds like an enemy coalition)
as my Mac and Linux boxes could not reliable acces s them.
Then I went and bought the Netgear ReadyNas DUO and it has NFS, AFP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP access that WORKS. Logging into my home NAS from work with my Mac as a SNAP and it looks and acts just like a local drive.
No, not all the vendors provide reliable Mac, PC and Linux access to their products. In fact,
Netgear has taken Maxtor Drives off their approved drive list due to continued problems implementing drives to their units.

By: QB

QB — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:15:35 +0000

The HP server will look like an HFS Plus file system to the Mac so programs like iTunes and Time Machine will be happy.

HP is getting ready to roll this feature out to their enterprise servers soon since there are a lot more Macs out there in Fortune 1000 land than people think. HP is kicking Dell’s ass in the enterprise because they’re listening to their customers – thank God.

This server is based on the Window Media Server which works quite well. WMS is a actual under-reported story. The HP lab at Building 18 in Redmond has some pretty cool stuff – way more interesting than the Microsoft “Home of Tomorrow”.

By: Animby

Animby — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:55:43 +0000

See #3 and #4

I’ve given PayPal all I am going to give them.

By: Randomized

Randomized — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:28:40 +0000

I’m in the same boat as #3. I would be happy to donate but I refuse to use PayPal.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:22:34 +0000

John C. Dvorak,

I would like to donate towards removing the ads and updating your servers. Unfortunately your link will only accept PayPal. I refuse to deal with such an unfair, one sided User Agreement that PayPal uses. Not to mention that in the past I have had other problems with PayPal that never did get resolved.

If you have an alternative to PayPal then I would be more than happy to send a donation your way.